Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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